Deputy Director-General, eHealth

• Executive Level Role HES4
• Opportunity to Lead eHealth function across Queensland
• Contemporary Leadership Opportunity

THE OPPORTUNITY

Lead eHealth Queensland providing advice on statewide eHealth innovation, strategy, planning, standards, architecture and governance and is responsible for delivering clinical, corporate and infrastructure ICT programs in line with the Queensland Health vision and investment priorities; providing modern ICT infrastructure and customer support for desktop, mobile, smart devices, telehealth, data centres, network and security.

THE ROLE

The Deputy Director-General, eHealth Queensland provides strategic leadership to drive the information technology and eHealth agenda for the State, managing the organisation as an innovative, efficient and effective provider of enterprise technology services for a range of stakeholders across Queensland’s public health system, including the State’s Hospital and Health Services, and the Department.

As leader of the eHealth Queensland Division, the role leverages an in-depth understanding of the strategic issues facing the public health system, the broader eHealth agenda, and trends impacting information technology in the health care environment to ensure the operations of the organisation and its core information technology activities are efficient and achieve best-practice standards for Department of Health and Hospital and Health Services stakeholders.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate:

• Demonstrated ability to operate as a collegial and collaborative member of a multi-disciplinary executive.
• Excellent knowledge of contemporary, best-practice healthcare information technology initiatives and eHealth priorities, with particular emphasis on managing these functions and services over a large geographic area for a complex organisation and within an operating environment characterised by the need to liaise with, engage and consult with a range of stakeholders in the achievement of outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience working within a complex system or organisation with devolved accountabilities and responsibilities that require a detailed understanding of system leadership, risk management, strategic direction-setting and the challenges facing modern information technology service delivery, with particular reference to the healthcare setting.
• Detailed understanding of all the elements of health service delivery (people, facilities, equipment, funding, technology) and the inter-relationships between those elements necessary to deliver quality information technology outcomes in a healthcare setting.
• Demonstrated extensive knowledge of corporate governance principles, contemporary management techniques, the role of commercialised business units (including government requirements relating to such entities) at a health system level and/or supporting healthcare reform (particularly in relation to improving eHealth and information technology in a health context).
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a collegial and collaborative member of a multi-disciplinary executive.

HOW TO APPLY

The closing date for applications is Friday, 11 April 2025.

The reference number to include in your application is H25_5057